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Re: So how many of you were in the Boy Scouts?
« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2003, 02:36:48 AM »
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Flossy? Girl Scouts?
LOL.... yep I was a Girl Guide, as we call them here in the UK.  Started when I was about 10 and worked my way up to Patrol Leader over the next few years.  I stayed until I was 16, but didn't want to leave, so started training as a Guider (leader)..... eventually left after meeting Zeb and getting married, but they were some fun years.  :D
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« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2003, 11:32:48 AM »
Oh yeah boyscout here.. from age 12 to 15... made it to 1st class.. ..

Our troop was great.. we went camping every month on weekends.. One of the first trips we went on.. I was still a tendertootsie.. One of the older boys blew off a finger playing with M80s.. This happened as we were still hiking down the hill. The troop leader started hauling bellybutton down that trail.. I was amazed! All the fathers were either Korean or WW2 veterans

Later after we had our tents up, it started to rain.. first a light drizzel then a downpour. The tent I was sleeping in got flooded. Then all the tents got flooded.. tents crashing down... the troop leader.. whos already had a long day, decided to break camp.  All the cars were stuck in the mud... We're talking serious mud here..2 or 3 feet!.. We all had to get out and push.. wasn't easy.. Some of the fathers who normally don't cuss... were big time cussin'.

A couple of trips after that I got initiated... they made some kind of sticky paste and plastered it all over me.. I had to run across the campground to gather my clothes.. hehehe I guess if they had initiations like that today someone would get a lawsuit.

Once a year we'd go to boyscout jamboree... Here it was hundreds of troops all gathered together.. Boy that was fun.. except when I picked up a grill from an open fire.. ouch! 3rd degree burns.. Of the top five major pains I've had in my life, that''s one of them.. This includes busting my feemer bone.. the burn hurt worse..

Another time.. I don't remember if this was yearly.. the thing at Devonshire downs..  Daddog might remember, he went to collage in Northridge but I don't know if he grew up there.. Our troop had to build a log cabin. One of the fathers knew where we could chop down some trees.. So with hand axes.. we tried and tried.. maybe the trees these days are more solid.. or maybe people were way stronger back in the old days... but that was a squeak to make even one cut!... we finally gave up and broke out the chain saw. Moving those logs wasn't easy either... each one weighed about 600 pounds.. one of the boys almost got killed when a log rolled off the truck we were using.
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« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2003, 12:13:25 PM »
I was in the Boy Scouts till they held me upside down to pin an award to me and I was subsequently dropped on my head. Needless to say I was removed by my frightened mother.
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« Reply #18 on: January 13, 2003, 12:23:49 PM »
I was in cub scouts then Webelos but quit before boy scouts. Can't remember why. But I do remember a few years later goin parking outside my old scout cabin. lol I did learn something in scouts-where the good parking place was! :p
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« Reply #19 on: January 13, 2003, 12:40:04 PM »
I was in beavers and cubs.  My father was one of my beaver leaders and cub leaders.

Beaver leaders are name after this family in this weird beaver book.  The family was nicknamed by the beavers.  The father was "Hawkeye", the mother was "Rainbow", the son was "Rusty", and the daughter was "Bubbles".

My dad was diddlying Bubbles.  He thought he was Rusty, but oh no, the other beavers all called him diddlying Bubbles.  He didn't give a toejam, but I certainly did, at the time anyway.
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« Reply #20 on: January 13, 2003, 12:46:20 PM »
Thats a lotta beaver runnin around.
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« Reply #21 on: January 13, 2003, 06:06:25 PM »
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« Reply #22 on: January 13, 2003, 06:18:42 PM »
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« Reply #23 on: January 13, 2003, 07:15:41 PM »
...so; Flossy... are Girl Scout Cookies made from real Girl Scouts?
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« Reply #24 on: January 14, 2003, 12:26:44 AM »
I never was in scouts when I was a kid.  Now I am a Cub Master:)

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« Reply #25 on: January 14, 2003, 02:14:40 AM »
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« Reply #26 on: January 14, 2003, 05:12:32 AM »
Rank??  sounds a bit awkward term for scouts :) ... but anyways, yes I was one too.. from age of 8 till maybe 25..

Did it all... Cub scout, Boy scout 3rd 2nd and 1st class, then as a Scout Patrol leader and Explorer (or Venturer, Rover, Ranger.. different terms) at the same time. Then as Master scout and a Troop (Group) assistant Leader.

Maybe the peek of all those years was attending the World Jamboree in Canada (close to Calgary) in 1983 at age of 16 :) But also several hikes in Finnish Lapland (north) at later years were great. Seen lots of camping and hiking and I still try to go for a week to Lapland with a friend or two each year if I can.

They were very fun years :)
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« Reply #27 on: January 14, 2003, 06:28:49 AM »
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...so; Flossy... are Girl Scout Cookies made from real Girl Scouts?
No idea - I was a Girl Guide!  :)
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« Reply #28 on: January 14, 2003, 01:08:42 PM »
Was a Boy Scout (1st class), then Explorer Scout. My son is now a Life rank, workin on Eagle project and I'm one of the Asst. Scoutmasters. We go camping 1 weekend a month nearly every month. Gonna be freezing our butts of in Louisianna next weekend.
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« Reply #29 on: January 14, 2003, 02:53:30 PM »
indian guides when I was really young.
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